Lindsay Shepherd
Campus Free Speech Fellow, @JCCFCanada. Investigative Journalism Fellow, @TrueNorthCentre.
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Does Paw Patrol encourage our kids to embrace capitalism? | CBC News
King's University College criminology professor Liam Kennedy dissected the popular children's TV show and shared his research in a paper just published in the journal, Crime Media Culture.
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This article represents the state of arts degrees so perfectly.
Choose a cultural text (e.g. TV show, film), & write a paper applying the terms "problematic", "structural barriers", "capitalism", and "neoliberalism."
That's it.
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SHEPHERD: The grassroots revival of women taking on Bill C-16
Lindsay Shepherd speaks to three Canadian women who are fighting to get Bill C-16 repealed or modified, as the bill enables biological males who self-identify as women to enter female-designated spaces.
Lindsay Shepherd
For my latest article, I spoke with three of the women who are on the frontlines of the fight to get Bill C-16 modified or repealed. @JetSkiBum01 @JenniferAnne_s @cawsbar
So far, not many politicians are keen to reopen the discussion on this bill.
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All I dream of is becoming a tradwife
I couldn’t imagine a life better than one that would allow me to write books while staying home with my children. The life of a tradwife is for me
SHEPHERD: A mandatory high school English class that studies only indigenous authors?
That doesn’t sound like a “celebration of diversity.”
Ways of Knowing Episode 3: Hannah McGregor
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@KalinaChristoff @hkpmcgregor Link to full episode: pwias.ubc.ca/announcements/…
Mentioned in episode (even if not by name): @profmarkcollard @SpaceRational @FrancesWiddows1 @preta_6 @gidyvr @JulieRei
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CBC faces complaint by migrant workers groups over accusations of racism, harming migrants
The CBC got a taste of what it’s like to be called racist and bigoted simply for doing research and reporting.
'We killed this chick' | Maclean's | DECEMBER 16, 1996
A Regina murder trial has racial undercurrents
Poet cancels speech in Regina after uproar over his association to a killer
‘I never intended to cause such anguish for the family of Pamela George and the Indigenous community, and for that I am truly sorry,’ George Elliott Clarke said
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Apologies & all else aside, it is very strange that upon finding out your friend murdered an indigenous woman (working as a sex worker) in 1995, the first thing you think to say is you admire "lots of poets who committed crimes of one sort or another."
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UBC faces legal action for canceling Andy Ngo event about Antifa violence
VANCOUVER, BC: The Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms (www.jccf.ca) has issued a demand letter to the President of the University of British Columbia (“UBC”), warning that UBC will face legal action if it does not rescind its cancellation...
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Bangladesh closes breast milk bank after Islamist protests
A Bangladesh hospital has suspended plans to give donated breast milk to babies after a backlash by Muslim clerics who said the scheme violated Islamic law.
Monuments removed and places renamed: 5 contentious historical rewrites of 2019
Here are the five most contentious cases of monuments being removed and places being renamed in 2019.
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My latest column, in which I review five cases of monuments removed and places renamed in 2019.
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Watching pornography rewires the brain to a more juvenile state
Cognitive neuroscience finds that regular consumption of pornography affects the centres of the brain responsible for willpower, impulse control and morality.
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"Porn use has been correlated with erosion of the prefrontal cortex — the region of the brain that houses executive functions like morality, willpower and impulse control."
theconversation.com/watching-porno… via @ConversationCA
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Ryerson University student union torn apart by work commitment issues and social justice kerfuffle
Four RSU executives are facing impeachment over an incident involving non-indigenous student performing a song from the Disney film Pocahontas.
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"That film is definitely discriminatory against the Indigenous Peoples of Turtle Island..."
A student government impeachment scandal is unfolding over an incident where a non-indigenous student sang the song “Colors of the Wind” from Pocahontas.
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Sheila Gunn Reid on Defamation vs. Name-Calling
The word “Nazi” gets thrown around so much on social media, often by leftists who use the term to describe “someone whose opinion I don’t like.” At what poin...
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A recent video I've done for @TrueNorthCentre ☺️
--> At what point does name-calling become libel and defamation, spurring someone to take legal action? Is it hypocritical to be pro-free speech, but sue for defamation?
I interview @SheilaGunnReid
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Restricted hiring in three schools at the University of British Columbia.
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Related:
The Society for Academic Freedom & Scholarship has written an open letter to @UBC, as UBC has posted 3 new academic jobs that specifically discriminate against able-bodied white males.
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Is race-based pricing a Canadian value?
Via Rail’s Indigenous ticketing policy is unprecedented, socially divisive and plainly unfair
SHEPHERD: A systematic effort to undermine Barry Neufeld's character and credibility
Neufeld was being mobbed, attacked, and snubbed by almost everyone surrounding him in his role as trustee — yet he ran for re-election in October 2018, and won.